Business Process Outsourcing

Business process outsourcing (BPO) refers to an organization relying on a service provider to manage all aspects of a business activity: the business people associated with the process, the underlying technologies, and the IT support staff.

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  • eCommerce
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Case Study: How Barclaycard Helps Customers Manage Their Spending

    Barclaycard Offers State-Of-The-Art Spending Categorization And Reporting

    In August 2009, Barclaycard rolled out its new secure Web site, mybarclaycard, offering state-of-the-art functionality for managing credit cards online. The site combines excellent online banking...

    • Downloads: 540
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:iPhone 4S Cements Apple's Product Strategy Leadership Position

    Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty

    Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...

    • Downloads: 372
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:How To Prepare For Australia's National Broadband Network

    eBusinesses Must Prepare Now To Win Over New Customers

    The Australian federal government's National Broadband Network (NBN) is set to turn Australia into one of the most connected nations in the world. But how should eBusiness professionals respond? So...

    • Downloads: 108
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Insurers Are Rebalancing The Business For Growth

    Forrester Forrsights For Business Technology

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast, 2010 To 2015 (US)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares,...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Latin America

    Latin American Consumer Technographics®

    Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:The Emerging Engagement Channel Model

    Top Performers' Channel Investments Span The Customer Tech Adoption Life Cycle

    Tech vendors have historically treated channels as "outsourced sales" — or have, at least, invested that way. But a handful of vendors have departed from this model, choosing instead to invest...

    • Downloads: 448
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Starting Your eCommerce Business In China

    Identifying The Right Option For Your B2C eCommerce Business

    China has become the leading emerging market for many Western brands and retailers. Attractive due to the scale and growth of the retail market, many companies view China as both a near-term...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Pleasing Online Travel's Technology Pessimists Can Lead To Greater eBusiness Success

    Forty-four million US online leisure travelers do not see a role for technology in their lives. These travel technology pessimists use technology, including the Web, because they have to, not...

    • Downloads: 390
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Mainstream Digital Music Consumption Remains Chained To The PC

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Case Study: Wells Fargo Proves The Business Case For Online Chat

    Wells Fargo's Second Attempt At Online Chat Finds Incremental Success

    Wells Fargo was a pioneer in the use of online chat in 2002. While that initial move into live help met with mixed results, the desire on the team's part to inject human assistance into the process...

    • Downloads: 940
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The State Of US Mobile Banking: 2011

    Mainstream Adoption Hinges On Issues With Value, Security, And Support

    Mobile banking adoption continues to gather momentum in the US, fueled by strong consumer appetite for smartphones and banks' burgeoning supply of new mobile banking applications, websites, and...

    • Downloads: 1488
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Mobile Marketing: Not The Same On Tablets As On Smartphones

    Effective mobile marketing begins with understanding how consumers use the two main types of mobile devices that can deliver rich marketing experiences: smartphones and tablets. This short report...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Design Your B2B Community For Maximum Engagement

    Executive Overview: The B2B Online Community Playbook

    This playbook provides you with a strategy framework, road map, and the tools to establish a healthy and active online B2B community that delivers value to prospects, customers, and peers at each...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Staffing For Effective eBusiness Globalization

    Navigating The Centralized Versus Localized Approach

    Today's global eBusiness executives are struggling to organize eBusiness operations that effectively support increasing international revenues. Companies have experimented with a variety of...

    • Downloads: 489
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2010 North American Credit Card Public Web Site Rankings

    Capital One Takes The Top Spot For 2010

    For the first time, Forrester evaluated the public Web sites of the nine largest North American credit card issuers — American Express, Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Capital One (US),...

    • Downloads: 361
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:The PC/MP3 Player Orbit Dominates Digital Music Consumption

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Organizing For eBusiness — A Financial Services Perspective

    The Dual Nature Of eBusiness Requires A Multidimensional Organizational Structure

    Creating the optimal eBusiness organizational structure is one of the biggest challenges confronting eBusiness executives at financial services firms today. As both a channel and an enterprise...

    • Downloads: 674
  • For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Mobile Media Application Spending Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...

    • Downloads: 2
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Tool:Smartphone Owners Will Be A Primary Target Given Their Use Of Phones For Commerce

  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Globally Competitive Markets Demand Businesses Collaborate Beyond The Firewall

    For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...

    • Downloads: 234
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Tool:Support Community Readiness Checklist

  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:B2B Sales And Marketing Alignment Starts With The Customer

    Use The Customer Buying Cycle To Align The Go-To-Market Strategy

    Despite the best intentions, the conventional thinking of marketing and sales leaders around how to align these two teams is flawed, as it addresses the symptoms rather than the cause of the chasm....

    • Downloads: 781
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Tool:Marketing Capabilities Best Practices Self-Assessment

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Case Study: Redstone Federal Credit Union Right-Channels Deposits To The Mobile Channel

    Remote Deposit Capture Sharply Cuts The Cost Of Deposit Taking

    Financial institutions continue to face challenges on generating revenue. Recent US regulations have greatly reduced overdraft fees and debit card interchange income. With no clear sources of...

    • Downloads: 102
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The Building Blocks For Social Success In eBusiness

    As consumers become more comfortable integrating social tools into their everyday lives, eBusiness leaders seek the right social strategy to achieve their goals. While the benefits of social media...

    • Downloads: 898
 
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